On Wed, 4 May 2011 13:29:03 -0500, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wed, 4 May 2011 18:33:27 +0200, Thomas Berg <[email protected]> wrote: > >>FWIW, I have always considered a use of USS as a name for a UNIX system as >ugly. >>Especially for z/OS. Would in such a case prefer something like "ZUNIX", >"UNIZ" >>or "ZUX" ;). >> > >How soon we forget. Openedition existed for MVS/ESA 4.3 and MVS/ESA 5.1 >and 5.2. It was later rename to Unix System Services under OS/390 long >before "z" hardware and z/OS were ever dreamed of as a name for >the 64-bit hardware and OS. What would you have called it under OS/390 >to have short meaningful abbreviation? > I guess I forgot too. :-) After looking at an old bookshelf I see it was still Openedition until OS/390 2.6. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
